Importing Cheetah.Template.Template unusually slow?

Hi,

I was trying to speed up my CGI, and I worked out that the lion's share of execution time was taken up by the Cheetah import.  Is 0.7s unusually slow?  Where should I start in trying to speed it up?

thanks,
Matthew



time python -c 'from Cheetah.Template import Template'

real    0m0.693s
user    0m0.581s
sys     0m0.104s


OSX 10.6.2

Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul  7 2009, 23:51:51) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin



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